Member Feedback – Steroids In Baseball

Hello All, 

Today I received an email regarding the use of steroids in baseball. There are some interesting items in here, take a read, make sure to comment and let us know your thoughts on the topic.

Baseball needs to look at why and how this has gotten to this point.  Most of the stories that are coming out are from the past.  Is the ability to know if a player is on steroids so difficult as to allow so many players to be doing it for so long?  Do the players feel pressured into doing it to compete for the high salaries that are out there?  It’s either do it or lose out to the cheaters.  I’m not condoning this but I can surely see where their coming from.

 And while we’re at it lets revisit Pete Rose.  He seems to have achieved all of his stats without the use of steroids.  Oh, he was a bad boy so his stats don’t count. Please, murders don’t always get life sentences why is Pete getting one.   Put him in the Hall of Fame now.  Pete Rose was great. I know because I couldn’t stand him when he played (he was the competition).

If baseball was a little more prudent in their approach to this problem then the players wouldn’t get away with it.  Many players are just kids (big kids) and baseball and the owners should be more aware of what’s going on in their clubhouses.  All of these allegations are coming from disgruntled teammates or managers.  What we need to do is what President Nixon did with the countries traitors (draft dodgers).  We need to pardon them and get on with the game.

Let’s just make sure it stops here and now.  The alternative is to erase all baseball records and start over.  Who knows who has been cheating all these years to set the records.  Alcohol is a drug and most ball players indulged in this activity in the past.   My favorite player Mickey Mantle was a near alcohlic and I’m sure it numbed his pain so he could produce.   So lets pardon these guys, leave the records alone and lets fix the problem here an now.  No more steroids period.

After I read the email I found myself agreeing with many of the points in this message. Something HAS to be done right NOW regarding the future sanctity of the wonderful game of baseball. If we can at least be 90% sure that the players playing right now are not on steroids, we can still look forward to some serious records being broke (for real) in our lifetimes. 

So please comment, let us know what your thoughts are. This blog thrives on visitor and member input regarding topics like this.

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